skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from posts to /r/funny pointing out idiots on yahoo answers, when was the last time you ever saw anything from yahoo answers that was not a joke (accidental or otherwise)?

Yahoo better start doing SOMETHING to be relevant.

The people saying they do good playing 2nd/3rd place, I think, are naive. 2nd or 3rd place simply means your biding your time until [upstart] comes and eats your lunch.

In the case of acquihires - the fact is that google and facebook are in a talent war. They gobble up the talent, and guess what? that [upstart] eating yahoos lunch will not be [upstart] but google and facebook themselves.

Another user mentioned that they think that Yahoo should create a great VC arm. I FULLY agree with this, as evidenced by the many times on HN I have said exactly that.

So, its a multi front battle yahoo is in: need talent, need innovation strategy {VC/Acquisitions/dropping driftwood/etc}, need acquisitions that facebook/google are strategically vying for and need to create a relevant service.

Quora, while I have my issues with them, IS relevant. In many ways, but the most important way is they DO have a sizeable % of SV braintrust participating.

Yahoo should bring that braintrust's awareness around their brand!

Why not buy Quora, and "extend and embrace" that userbase and seek advice from some of the people on Quora?

There could be a huge PR win here.

"New mom and CEO Marissa Meyer buys Quora, the silicon valley strong Q&A site, meets with users and holds a town hall on what Yahoo users can truly benefit from, accompanied by an all star panel, many of whom are top users on Yahoo's new site Quora... blah blah blah synergy etc"

I think too many people are scared and lazy at Yahoo, lets hope the new mom and CEO has bigger balls than any of her predecessors.
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Only 8 years after the sale of Thinkpad to Lenovo. Interesting how fast the economic dynamics can change.
The story of the new Microsoft.com would be better if I could find what I am looking for in their MSDN documentation without it going something like this: Click link to find out about topic, 10 more links, click another link, 20 more links come up, etc. It's one big cluster f
Drupal is fine to code for, as long as you know what you are doing. #codemonkeylaughsatalltheclickmonkeys
Holy crap. What backwoods Alabama town did this Steve crawl out of? I'm a white person from the South and I want to punch this dumbass cracker.

I will be sure to avoid Kixeye's games (Battle Pirates, Backyard Monsters, War Commanders), and hope to hear of them going under soon.
As they are being featured their promo art is shown to users before they get to the page for that particular app (see the screenshots for their new and old images - you can see it is part of a scrolling bar of promo images).

If they weren't being featured, the promo art would only be seen by users that clicked through to the app's page - users would only have seen the app's icon before getting the app's landing page.

So I think featured vs not featured makes a big difference to the importance of the promo art.
Is the point I'm making unclear? Would you like me to reword it? Is there a word you'd prefer I had used in that place instead?
Actually just about every popular library out there for JS creates some sort of fake OO layer on top of JS (e.g. Backbone, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, etc..). If you are just throwing a couple of scripts together then JS is fine but if you are trying to make an actual application, you need libraries to make it more OO.

I've worked on large code bases in several languages and JS has to got to be one of the worst when it comes to code quality due to the flexibility. It's always an awful experience trying to refactor a large portion of JS since it's difficult to even find where objects are being used. I'd take AS3 over JS anytime of the day since it allows me to specify types (though optional) and if I do the tooling is able to do a lot of the static analysis that is important in large projects. TypeScript still gives you plain old JS while allowing you to specify some extra information in order to facilitate development. It's actually new developers that aren't aware of these things and love JS from what I've seen. They haven't worked on large code bases and love the flexibility of JS. When you actually are trying to create proper abstractions in order to architect your code, you need visibility modifiers, you need interfaces, and you need types.
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I think they were talking about touchdown. An aircraft that is landing approaches the ground quickly, levels off, and touches down at a couple of feet per second. An aircraft descending at 1,500 ft/min which no longer has control impacts the ground at 25 ft/s.
Android device's lifecycle is worse then iPhones: I replaced my (almost 2 years old) HTC Desire because it was stuck running Android 2.3.4 - thanks to Cyanogenmod, otherwise it would have an even older OS - which means security vulnerabilities like the recently found USSD "remote wipe by visiting a website" are exploitable.
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This just shows how pictures communicate more efficiently than text. On a busy screen filled with apps, the words "Vacation reviews, photos and more" don't get read, they just get tuned out. But a picture of a beautiful vacation home grabs the eye. There's almost an automatic "I want that" response.
If you've ever used Resharper then it's difficult to work in any other environment. I doubt most of Resharper's features would be possible in a non statically typed language. It's a Jetbrains product as well:

http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Given the forum this was presented in, I couldn't help but notice the string of successful companies this guy formed.

Sure, he may have had advantages, sometimes huge, that others don't, but at the end of the day it still takes hard work to start a single successful company, let alone a number of them.

People like that are always fascinating..I'm 27 and still looking for that one idea that will push me into pursuing my own business.
Integration works fine if both parties pretend to play nice. The not nice people die off, and the young generation never thinks of being not nice.
Microsoft is betting the farm on Windows 8 and it makes sense to me that they can leave nothing to chance. They have to have a plan B if hardware partners fail to come through. A company as big as Microsoft simply cannot pin their whole existence on a bunch of third party OEMs, especially when they are deeply in bed and arguably now far more invested with a bitter competitor. I would honestly expect there would be at least a skunk works project if nothing else. The news that the device is being tested, however, means it's come out of the skunk works - essentially, plan B has been "activated".

What I read from this, combined with the recent close partnering with HTC, is that MS is now heavily hedging their bets against Nokia failing, which can only mean they, with all their internal knowledge of their partnership with Nokia, now have strong doubts about whether Nokia itself is viable, or at least, viable enough to carry their flagship forward. So I wouldn't necessary read too much into this about the wider Windows8 strategy, but I'd read a lot of bad things for Nokia from it.
Man does that ever look awesome
Wepay.com is probably worth a look- IIRC, fees come out on the withdrawal side. It was designed and pushed with this exact application in mind.

Most payment services tend to be onerous for the one-time micropayor, and Wepay was pretty painless.

Dwolla would probably be better if they could streamline the signup process. (It's free for this size of micropayment)

Anytime you involve a credit card, you're going to involve fees of one kind or another. Luckily there are now more alternatives than ever before.
Stupid headline. It's 0.5 millimeters long! Hardly a "Devil Worm" whatever that means.
The last B-52's were built in 1962 at a cost of $9m. The $53m figure was in 1998 dollars. That's about $70m in 2012 dollars. Still a pretty good deal.
If they hit adamantine, I say we call the whole thing.
And now imagine the entire country was like that half of Baltimore? How would you feel then? You can at least avoid that area - they can't.
Also the possibility of finding new life forms. We've found life drilling several miles down. How much further does it go?
Someone on a different thread said that Steam developed a DRM rep due to having an online requirement that has since been removed.

I can't verify this at the moment, but no one has corrected the other poster yet.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4604431
If the hole is only 30cm wide, and it's going to take 8 years to complete (complete in 2020), isn't there a decent chance that there will be movement in the plates that will close up the hole?
On a side note, I recall hearing that almost all of the TOR traffic is routed through about 12 exit nodes. That seems like the government is investing the resources needed to weaken that system. Of course, I have no idea how large the TOR network is relative to bitcoin.
Developing via a GUI is good for rapid prototyping or CMS applications, but I prefer traditional coding for web applications. It's easy to change something in a GUI and not notice it. You can't "grep" a GUI to find the screen you need to access to change something (as you may need to click through several screens to get to where you want to go). Version control becomes more complicated as well: when development is defined by data in a database it's more complicated to have a staging/production setup than with straight-up code in version control. Plus text is expressive: there's a reason humanity moved to the written word from pictographs.

Performance can also be an issue as well in Drupal, depending on your use-case. Stuff based on layer upon layer of abstraction uses more memory and can be slow. "Just add Varnish" works for some use-cases, but not others.

Upgrading can be painful as well. Because third-party modules are dependent on Drupal core, when you upgrade Drupal core you also have to upgrade all your modules at the same time. For a complex site this can take awhile. If a module isn't upgraded you either have to do that work yourself, drop it as a dependency, or wait to see if the module gets updated. With less monolithic systems you can deal with upgrading components individually which can make the process more manageable.
The employee in the hostile work environment doesn't say that he said "Dumbwhite" - it's an internal response and doesn't indicate that he's fighting racism with racism. Objectively based on the incident presented, it's a simple statement of fact that the co-worker, is dumb, white and a .

It's not the job of members of minority groups to educate members of majority groups on their culture. People who aren't members of minority cultures should make an effort to self-educate and work against the grain of systemic discrimination.
FTC gets a $163 million judgment against scareware operation
I'm too cynical to even manage disappointment, sorry. HN is... well, it's very white. I'm not so much talking about the people who comment here, but for the most part we're discussing companies founded and run by white people, funded by all-white venture capital organisations, with a largely-white employee base. Given that, it's sadly not surprising that many commenters here have really fucked up views on racism because there's no reason why they wouldn't. It's not like there's even any way to tell 99% of the time because the subject hardly ever comes up.
FYI, renamed to Starmite.

New link: https://github.com/2tablespoons/starmite

Thanks to diskwuff for pointing out the name conflict.
Amen. The clarified login error message finding is way more interesting than the vague platitudes on branding and security.

No one will get rid of their social buttons solely on the basis of this post, but hopefully many people will now work on improving their error messages after reading this.
Only 10 times the cost of making a movie about reaching the core.
The first thing that came to mind was this one: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS31E08T...
Why do you need to recompute the entire block chain. At the moment, the block chain is in some state. If you control the majority of the processing power, you can devote it all to expanding the chain from that state. Because you have more CPU, your version of the block chain would replace the old version when you choice to release it. This would not let you re-write history from before you started mining, but gives you complete control of events after you started.
Out of idle curiosity (having left development a good while ago), are those rates you're quoting your expectations for freelance contracting or a salaried/full-time position?
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A little more detail from NIST here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sha-100212.cfm
Actual link http://thisdeveloperslife.com (ban the blog spam!)
Yea, I have been editing that post to be a little more clear. But, I should add that while B-52's are still in service they have been extensively retrofired to the point where little more than the original Airframe remains and the practical replacement cost is significantly higher than 70 million.
Responsive design is the crack of the web design/development community right now.

Images that look like crap, and layouts that only work some of the time isn't normal... but with responsive designs it is.

I don't know what the answer it. But I know responsive design isn't it. Or at least, it's not the answer we should settle for.
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If you're using Drupal the way the author describes here - building in the interface rather than writing code - then yes, you're pretty much doomed. You're producing a very fragile thing that is very hard to maintain and adjust later on, and heaven help you if you actually want to do something in a different way than the modules you're working with allow out of the box.

Drupal development is very divided between (a) the small number of people who can treat it as a framework and write solid custom code while still making good reuse of core and contributed modules to speed development versus (b) the much larger number of people who treat it as a sophisticated CMS with plugins, and typically use Views and template overrides to produce a fragile solution.

On the money side of things - yes, if you're in group (a), then you can charge a bunch of money. Drupal development is very lucrative. If you're in group (b), then no. That's just an average wage.
>If we're innocent, why do we need to be tracked?

Because governments, including the american government, are well known to also persecute the innocent.

It's not about murderers, fraudsters and rapists --it's all about political cases, whistleblowers, dissidents, and such.
So racism is okay as long as it's not in a professional setting?
Pity there's only 1000 of these, it'd be fun to see if I could flash this with a newer OS.
> Keccak's (pronounced: ketchup)

I don't think so. From NIST's announcement: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sha-100212.cfm

> Keccak (pronounced “catch-ack”)
I pick "See All Products" off the Products hover and get a 404 error (Canada region).
My impression is that people, in the absence of obvious (to them) differences in security, will choose a cryptographic function based on speed, which is simple to understand and quantify.

Going by the eBASH benchmarks, software implementations of Keccak are mostly the same speed as SHA-2, and for some CPUs it's significantly slower.

It does have better throughput/area ratio in hardware, but chip manufacturers are not early adapters.

With that in mind I can't see any major push for general SHA-3 adoption unless the SHA-2 family is broken.

Still, I'm looking forward to the reading the report.
One size fits all seems nice for it's simplicity, but you end up leaving too much money on the table.

Some users will pay less, some will pay more, you want a pricing scheme that allows them to do that.
Serverbear after 2 months
I cancelled my sign up because of this

THIS APP WILL RECEIVE:
Your basic info
Your email address (myemail)
Your profile info: description, activities, birthday, education history, groups, hometown, interests, likes, location, questions, relationship status, religious and political views, subscribers and subscribees, website and work history
Your stories: events, games activity, notes, photos, status updates and videos
Friends' profile info: descriptions, activities, birthdays, education histories, groups, hometowns, interests, likes, locations, questions, relationship statuses, religious and political views, subscribers and subscribees, websites and work histories
Stories shared with you: events, games activity, notes, photos, status updates and videos
Your app activity from: music apps, news apps and video apps
Friends' app activity from: music apps, news apps and video apps
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll share a link to (what is from what I can tell by a quick search) thee template:

http://www.cubeecraft.com/template.html
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/25324757166811545... :)

And there is Keccup by the same authors: http://www.hyperelliptic.org/DIAC/slides/PermutationDIAC2012...
I don't believe the author is trying to unfairly tarnish the company he worked for. I do, however, believe that he cannot be an objective witness of events, as his recollection is being strongly influenced by his own personal biases.

You make it seem so nice when you say "the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and social beliefs." But let's be honest, the author is a racist. I get his frustration. But his remarks make it clear he dislikes all white people. The entire "dumbwhite*" stuff, the white supremacy comment, the white men feeling they have authority, etc., are all examples of a negative feelings held against white people simply because they are white. This is racism.

It can't be okay for him to be racist in response to the racism he was experiencing. If we're being asked to not accept one form of racism, then we have to not accept any form of racism.
I joined mailchimp ~7 months ago after Jason (thisweekin.com) pleaded viewers to check it out so i signed up for the free trial (2000 subscribers free no credit card).

I'm amazed by everything that they do. Elegant api and ux that "you get" from the get-go. It is a huge problem to solve and i'm now engaging with 1100 subscribers.

Now i want to pay ($30/m) but they don't accept paypal - the service i use to pay for everything since i'm a digital vendor. There are companies in the U.S that don't understand that alot of foreigners do business solely with paypal. There are those who dig it though(Elance, Envato, Odesk)

mailchimp take the leap! eeee
I'm a Sydney-based UX person with a background in UI and front-end coding, and I happen to find programming (I dabble in php) extremely satisfying. Drupal, to me, is definitely a means to get things done.

Here's my "day in Drupal":

- Amazed
- Amazed
- Bored
- WTF?
- Lunch

- Amazed
- Puzzled
- Amazed
- FUCK YOU DRUPAL!
- Amazed

Yes, setting up content types and views can be annoying, but really, sometimes you get a view done in under 15 minutes. Including styling. Stuff like that never ceases to amaze me, and really makes Drupal worthwhile.

I could never code a cms ground-up, and the likes of cakePHP and whatnot just seem a wee bit too far down the rabit-hole (for now).

Drupal is an "easy" alternative.
"greater" here means that we would think that SHA-2 is easier to break than SHA-3. Technically speaking, it's a guess, but I think that the general consensus is that it is more likely that SHA-2 will be broken before SHA-3.
Microsoft's website is a solid improvement, and glad they are spearheading the responsive design movement amongst corporates.

But when it comes to their stated goals of simplification, it may seem odd that MS continue to promote unwieldy URLs.

Is /default.aspx really necessary? Would the average visitor care about the underlying technology?

This seems unlikely to be a simple oversight, but perhaps it's intended to advertise the .NET brand (at the cost of usability), or maybe legacy reasons.
>On the other hand turn it around. Suppose that there was a rash of burglaries and you were the investigating officer. Wouldn't you want to be able to find all cell phones that were in proximity to a significant number of the burglaries at the time that they happened?

Do people seriously believe that investigative detectives for burglaries (or even murders) have such clout and influence as to pass federal laws concerning wiretapping and phone tracking?

This is all about the government wanting the extra ability to gather data on citizens, for political reasons.

The 2012 version of the huge files J.E. Hoover had on everyone that mattered then.

It's not about "stopping crime".
You can set skin color on the head shape - there's only one head, but lots of colors.
It's the same link.
Yes, and amen. All people who are afraid to write code need to stop using drupal.
Why not have it drive one of these[1] on your desk and use the smaller size to its more portable advantages?

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/02/viewsonics-vx70smh-led-ip...
"There is another co-worker, Mike, who was also hired through the same contractor and is black also. One day this large, lumbering white guy walks by our work station and Mike says “watch out for that guy, he’s trouble, he talks a lot of shit” in a half affectionate half sarcastic tone, like you would about a friend. However, when I see the white guy’s sneering red face looking back at us I knew there was more than ring of truth to that statement…"

It seems "and Mike says" is pretty clear, especially with the followup about it being true, illustrated with incidents involving the guy who "talks a lot of shit".
But... it does kind of look like a calculator.
if you can't code a CMS, don't claim to be a professional at using them.
>Given the choice between keeping their anonymity and farmvilling with friends, most people will choose the latter.

And most people WONT have a problem caused by choosing the latter.

It's the few people, people who probably wouldn't chose it in the first place, that would get affected.

People like the future Martin Luther Kings and Malcom Xs, Joe Hill, Jimmy Hoffa, victims of the McCarthy persecution, the EFF, whistleblowers, anti-war protesters, OWS, etc etc.
Surely, as tptacek's professional life (you know the one here on HN) is dedicated to proving that the security of the encryption algorithm is mostly incidental to the security of the system as a whole, then I would like the next competition to be about producing reference implementations or similar. Sort of like keyczar but down to the point where all browsers simply incorporate the same approved crypto libraries and Apis, securely use areas of memory without file handles anywhere in the background and all the other good stuff that takes us into a 80% done by default world.

I am not saying this isn't good stuff, but as someone struggling to implement a user login properly it would be much nicer to have a template to follow. (and he waits for someone to point to the template ...)
I like the design, and the story of what went into it, but I'm curious about the QA of this thing for all regions.

In the Canadian region:

1. There are typos (Under Products hover, "Business Solutions" heading, there's a link "Microsoft in the [sic] eneterprise").

2. There are 404s (Under Products hover, "See all products" goes to a 404 page).

Just seems rather amateurish for such a big website, but then again, Canada is only the population count of California.
Just look at stack exchange. It's gamification is part of what makes it so rewarding to use.
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Intel Ivy Bridge Clocks Record 7.184GHz on Asus Maximus V Extreme Motherboard
Double-check the definition of "empirical", it doesn't mean "based on The Scientific Method":

>based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
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